photography symmetry appears when parts of your composition mirror other parts. It is created when two halves of your scene look the same and balance each other out.

The log was not level but that wasn't going to faze either of us!

Having a moment with a shy red squirrel at British Wildlife Centre, UK

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

This tiny Wren appeared on the top of the bird feeder outside my window and immediately started singing in a huge voice. It had only just fledged and perhaps had not yet learned all the secretive behaviour typical of a Wren, which is usually heard rather than seen.

It stayed all morning and then came back in the evening.

Perhaps this was its first song? Regardless, it made my day.

This photo shows it larger than life-size - for comparison, look at the screwhead in the feeder.

Eurasian Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

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This is now one of my favorite birds - I love yellows and the birds look fabulous and beautiful. They are small social birds found in large flocks of 10-15 whenever we sight them. They are widely distributed in the Himalayan region and easily found in bushy areas.

The birds are quite vary of the larger Magpies, Thrushes and of course the treepies. So they immediately scoot whenever those larger birds appear anywhere near them. The Magpies - very large birds and extremely aggressive - are very beautiful - but they are total spoilsports!

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This rainbow appeared at dusk, after a dramatic storm. It was also my Mom's Birthday. I like to think it was her way of saying she is doing well in Heaven above.

Worldwide Plaza, Hell's Kitchen, Midtown Manhattan

Of course, I love the Judy Garland version, but the rendition by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole always gives me goosebumps:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

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Lake Winnebago is a huge lake, 30 miles long and 10 miles across. It's also a productive fishery and attracts anglers all year long. In this image, a lone individual on foot is pulling a sled for ice fishing gear. The person is a long way out on the frozen lake appearing to be near the horizon a bit left of center.

I took the photograph from the trail on the breakwater wall that protects Millers Bay in Menominee Park, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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A pristine Scottish 'double-spotted' female (quadripunctata) - a late start to the season, only just beginning to appear along the Berwickshire coast line in the Scottish lowlands (UK) (1533)

Little Owl about to take flight.

The Little Owl is not a native species, having been introduced to Britain in the 1870s, but it appears to have occupied a vacant niche without having any detrimental impact on other species. Numbers and breeding distribution increased gradually, reaching an estimated breeding population of between 4,000 and 8,500 pairs at the time of Project Barn Owl. The current distribution extends across England, north to the Scottish borders and west into Wales, where it is largely confined to Anglesey and to eastern parts of the country. There have been very few records from Ireland.

Pairs remain on their breeding territories throughout the year, with territorial calling evident during autumn – when young birds are searching for breeding territories – and again during spring. Small cavities are favoured for breeding, these often located within hedgerow trees or the walls of old agricultural buildings. Favoured nesting chambers tend to be located some distance from the cavity entrance and with little daylight reaching them. The male will often perch close to the nest cavity while his mate is incubating her clutch of eggs.

Little Owls often hunt from a perch, taking small mammals and large invertebrates, including earthworms, cockchafers and other beetles. There is evidence to suggest that breeding success is linked to the availability of small mammals, though some pairs evidently do well on other prey; a pair breeding on the island of Skomer, for example, took a large number of Storm Petrels (Courtesy BTO).

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...and I raced out outside with new energy!

Gerbera jamesonii blooms. Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2x macro lens. Despite how this might look, the histogram remained within bounds ;-)

Messier 97 (top) and Messier 108 (bottom) in Ursa Major are two celestial objects that appear to be close to each other but in reality are separated by an immense distance in space.

M97, known as the Owl Nebula, is a planetary nebula located inside our own galaxy at about 2,500 light-years away and has a diameter of about 2 light years. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and it was included in the famous catalogue of Charles Messier as entry 97. Two prominent dark spots inside the nebula give the appearance of an owl’s face.

A planetary nebula is formed by the expanding shell of gases blown off by a dying star at the last stages of its life. The expanding shell is heated by the radiation of the central star (a very faint 16th magnitude star in this case) and it glows mostly in green light of oxygen atoms. The nebula will completely disperse into space over the next several thousand years, while the central star will cool and fade away over the next several billion years.

The estimated age of the Owl Nebula is about 6,000 to 8,000 years.

Galaxy M108, the Surfboard Galaxy, is harder to see in a telescope than M97, because its light is spread out over a larger area. It happens to lie near the same line of sight as M97 but is located at about 45 million light-years away. M108 is an edge-on spiral galaxy, heavily obscured by dust. It was also discovered by Méchain.

Technical Info:

Telescope: Orion EON 80ED refractor, F = 500 mm, f/6.25

Camera: Canon EOS 600Da

Mount: Vixen Sphinx

Filter: none

Guiding: 80/400 Skywatcher refractor - SkyWatcher SynGuider

Light frames: 6 x 5 mins (total: 30 mins), ISO 1600, Custom WB, calibrated with darks.

Date: 26 April 2022

Location Bortle scale: 4

Software: DSS, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom classic.

The Al-Khazneh (building that appears in "Indiana Jones"), for example, is a work of century 1 a.C .: made like real mausoleum. Its façade, of Hellenistic inspiration, impresses by the dimensions: it is 43 meters of height by 30 of width. At the top of one of the mountains surrounding Petra is another work of art: the Ad-Deir, another mausoleum, but which was used in the 5th century AD as a Byzantine church. To visit it, you have to face 800 steps that lead to the top. Petra was a powerful city. The Nabataeans put her on the route of the caravans that crossed the Arabian peninsula towards the Mediterranean or the Red Sea. They have developed irrigation systems and built dams to store rainwater that falls from time to time into the desert. In its peak, the place had 30 thousand inhabitants.

Zu den wichtigsten Sehenswürdigkeiten von Cádiz zählt die Kathedrale aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Sie liegt direkt am Meer und im historischen Zentrum an der Plaza de la Catedral.

Der Bau der Kathedrale von Cádiz vollzog sich in 116 Jahren. Verschiedene Architekten und Baumeister gaben sich den Stift in die Hand und integrierten dabei ganz unterschiedliche Stile: Barock, Rokoko und Neoklassik – 1838 wurde das Gotteshaus dann geweiht.

Die lichte Helle setzt sich im Innenraum der Kathedrale fort, der weit und großzügig wirkt und von korinthischen Marmorsäulen strukturiert ist. Er misst 85 Meter Länge, 60 Meter Breite und beeindruckende 52 Meter Höhe. Nicht zuletzt bietet er angenehm kühle Temperaturen in der Gluthitze des andalusischen Sommers.

One of the main attractions of Cadiz is the 18th-century cathedral. It is located directly on the sea and in the historic center on the Plaza de la Catedral.

The construction of the Cathedral of Cadiz took 116 years. Various architects and master builders took charge and integrated very different styles: baroque, rococo and neoclassical – the church was consecrated in 1838.

The bright light continues in the interior of the cathedral, which appears wide and spacious and is structured by Corinthian marble columns. It measures 85 meters in length, 60 meters in width and an impressive 52 meters in height. Last but not least, it offers pleasantly cool temperatures in the sweltering heat of the Andalusian summer.

Ninepin rock appears to have a lighthouse, but it is only a beacon. Known for rock fishing, but safety is a concern on this rugged beach.

Explore May 15, 2022 (#237)

Fungi of beechwood: Tripe fungi (Auricularia mesenterica) growing on a beech stump and covering almost entire surface of this low cut stump. Looking from the top they didn’t look like tripe at all. Instead, simple concentric zones, variable shapes and forms appeared as an abstracted mosaic. Tripe fungi belong to the group of jelly fungi. “Auricula” means ‘ear’ in Latin, whereas epithet “mesenterica” is derived from a Greek words “meso & “enteron” meaning 'middle intestine'. Hence the common name, Tripe. It refers to a characteristic wrinkled shape of the underside of these interesting fungi that could be barely seen in the top right corner as a daker reddish-purple under crust-like underside. Conversely to Jelly ears (Auricularia auricula-judae), these are completely indigestible. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.

I try to give ID where possible but often it is not an easy task in the world of fungi without special examination, and I am not a mycologist. So, if you feel that ID is not accurate, please do correct.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Rene Daumal

Chiba, Japan

Am 16.07.2019 gab es um 23:32 Uhr die partielle Mondfinsternis und der Mond wurde zu zwei Drittel vom Erdschatten verdeckt.

Mir ging es aber dieses Mal darum, den Blutmond zu fotografieren. Der Blutmond entsteht, wenn der Zeitpunkt des Mondaufganges und des Sonnenunterganges gleich ist. Durch die Atmosphäre werden nur die langwelligen roten Anteile des Lichtes sichtbar, welches vom Mond durch die Sonne angestrahlt, auf die Erde reflektiert wird. Deshalb erscheint der Mond in himbeerfarbenem rosa Licht. In Horizontnähe wirkt er auch grösser und mächtiger. Die Aufnahme habe ich in Zedtwitz gemacht und unterhalb des Mondes ist das Tanzlokal Fernverkehr sichtbar.

On 16.07.2019 at 23:32 there was the partial lunar eclipse and the moon was covered to two-thirds of the earth's shadow.

But this time it was about photographing the Bloodmoon. The Blood Moon is created when the time of the moonrise and the sunset is the same. Through the atmosphere, only the long-wave red portions of the light are visible, which is illuminated by the moon through the sun, is reflected on the earth. Therefore, the moon appears in raspberry pink light. Close to the horizon, it also looks bigger and more powerful. I took the picture in Zedtwitz and below the moon the dance hall long-distance traffic is visible.

It appears this speed boat was not as good as 007’s. It couldn’t escape all the bullets being shot at it.

It is not a cigarette boat ...more like a cigar boat, I think.

As we are approaching Fredvang , other landscapes of incredible beauty appear to us.

Fredvang is a quite isolated village in Flakstad Municipality in Nordland county, located on the island of Moskenesøya in the Lofoten archipelago.

This image accidentally appeared as I took a picture of a moving subway train in Toronto. The two historical images from Toronto's past are framed by the windows which reveal the artwork on the opposite platform.

This Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) appears to be floating on a cloud! In reality it's on the snow on top of a fence post!

Widespread hummingbird, but often overlooked. Appears mostly green with a solidly dark blue tail. If seen in good light, note reddish base of bill and (for male) strong bluish sheen on throat and breast. Female identifiable by extensive green spotting below. Occurs in a variety of habitats including river edges, abandoned plantations and second growth, and patches of savanna woodland. Feeds on nectar and defends patches of flowers from other hummingbirds. Male is similar to male Blue-tailed Emerald but is larger, lacks forked tail and has bluish cast on underparts. Female is somewhat similar to Glittering-throated Emerald but has uniformly spotted breast.

Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad. February 2016.

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Catnip can be quite invasive. It appears in all kinds of places in the garden (even in winter), to the delight of the cats and the annoyance of the gardener. Sethi immediately discovered this new one, growing on the garden path. Sorry Sethi, but this catnip plant will have to go !

small little flowers appear in the snow...

It's the dawn of the year, February...

The silver and white winter will soon leave and spring colours will return...

Everything appeared to be calm and peaceful, but above us a storm was brewing. You could hear the thunder and see the lightning flash. This was definitely a time where I was thankful to be deep in the woods sheltered by a canopy of trees. About two seconds after I finished this shot it began to rain, and not just a little bit, but a lot! By the time we made it bak to our car we were drenched through and our equipment bags were soaked as well. Thankfully the shot still paid off, but it was not easy. Yet the moment of stillness right before the storm hit was so peaceful. It can honestly be difficult to sit and just be when there is a storm raging around you or one that is eminent. In Psalm 46:10 it says this, "Be Still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." The reason that we are able to be still is because God is in total control. He sits on the throne and because He does we can sit and just be, we can rest, and we are safe in His presence.

He thinks I can’t see him, he was wrong.

The Little Owl is not a native species, having been introduced to Britain in the 1870s, but it appears to have occupied a vacant niche without having any detrimental impact on other species. Numbers and breeding distribution increased gradually, reaching an estimated breeding population of between 4,000 and 8,500 pairs at the time of Project Barn Owl. The current distribution extends across England, north to the Scottish borders and west into Wales, where it is largely confined to Anglesey and to eastern parts of the country. There have been very few records from Ireland.

Pairs remain on their breeding territories throughout the year, with territorial calling evident during autumn – when young birds are searching for breeding territories – and again during spring. Small cavities are favoured for breeding, these often located within hedgerow trees or the walls of old agricultural buildings. Favoured nesting chambers tend to be located some distance from the cavity entrance and with little daylight reaching them. The male will often perch close to the nest cavity while his mate is incubating her clutch of eggs.

Little Owls often hunt from a perch, taking small mammals and large invertebrates, including earthworms, cockchafers and other beetles. There is evidence to suggest that breeding success is linked to the availability of small mammals, though some pairs evidently do well on other prey; a pair breeding on the island of Skomer, for example, took a large number of Storm Petrels (Courtesy BTO).

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A very young Brown Pelican appeared to be on a collision heading with my kayak before it pulled up short in pursuit of schools of gulf menhaden on Horsepen Bayou last month. Although there is a major pelican rookery only about 20 miles away on South Deer Island in Galveston's West Bay, I have never seen them come to the bayou to feed before late fall or winter so this early visit was quite a surprise. Canoe Boy (AKA Jerome) has a theory as to why.

yes is a pleasant country:

if’s wintry

(my lovely)

let’s open the year

both is the very weather

(not either)

my treasure,

when violets appear

love is a deeper season

than reason;

my sweet one

(and april’s where we’re)

e.e. cummings

Thanks a lot Frank Busch for encouraging me to mess around with "spooky stuff" like lightroom ;-) and trying portraits... You're a great support and a wonderful friend!

Artwork by Jeppe Hein, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 06/2022

Wasting on nothing

Effortlessly, you appear

Sound of the thunder

Reverberate in your ears

This is a slow dance

This is the chance to transform

Pause for the silence

In habit, the calm of the storm

This is your ocean, an ocean of night

This is the notion, your ocean of night

This is your ocean, an ocean of night

This is the notion, your ocean of night

Love is a feeling

Buried with me in the yard

Gaze at the skyline

Under the ocean of stars

This is your slow dance

And this is your chance to transform

Lost to a moment

The moment you confront the storm

This is your ocean, an ocean of night

This is the notion, your ocean of night

This is your ocean, an ocean of night

This is the notion, your ocean of night

I am your hope down the wire

So you can hold back the fire

I am your hope down the wire

So you can hold back the fire

I am your hope down the wire

So you can hold back the fire

I am your hope down the wire

So you can hold back the fire

I am your hope down the wire

So you can hold back the fire

I am your hope down the wire

So you can hold back the fire

This is your ocean, an ocean of night

This is the notion, your ocean of night

This is your ocean, an ocean of night

This is the notion, your ocean of night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlY2fxaFrw

UNEXPECTED VISITOR Just as we were packing up from seeing anything decent from our hide in a wooded area, this beautiful male cuckoo appeared, with glistening emerald green plumage. We had a mad panic trying to get back into shooting mode again, as it did stay more than a few seconds. Seen in the Gambia, and lucky to do so.

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The Grebes were not as active today. Only one pair was courting on the broad and only distant. I laid by the waters edge in a small sheltered bay and this one suddenly appeared at close-range. Never saw him coming, Its amazing how far they can travel underwater

Parque Nacional Sangay at 3,650 meters (11,975 ft) above sea level now.

This lone little bald cypress appeared to be somewhat lifeless & defeated as Autumn had come and thus .... time to shed its foliage.

Here in South Louisiana.....our Autumn Season is extremely short, so subjects like this easily stand out.

Even though that time of the year is just about upon us......my scouting report shows that our peak season will be a bit later than usual.

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The first mention of Middachten appears in the year 1190, and although the castle dates from the early Middle Ages, the house in its present form was built towards the end of the 17th century and still includes some medieval parts. Middachten is unique in that it is still a real, working estate. Besides the castle, park and gardens, the estate also includes farms, woods and agricultural land.

Middachten has never been sold but has always passed from one generation to another. As a result of this, the interior of the castle is complete and still has many of the original household effects, including a large collection of portraits and much 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture. The castle also has the original cupboards filled with collections of china, silver and glass-wear, and antique linen. The management of the estate is in the hands of the 25th Lord of Middachten, Count zu Ortenburg.

Your wedding at Middachten Castle would be an unforgettable experience for you and your guests. You would be welcomed at the castle steps from where you would be led through the vestibule with its beautiful staircase to the great hall. Here an official from the Rheden Borough Council would conduct the civil wedding ceremony. The gardens around the castle form a wonderful location for your wedding photographs.

It slowly appears from out of the mist.

Calling for a whisper of heaven's door.

Credits

Song

in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument :-)

Henri Cartier-Bresson

chrysanthemum, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

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This male (buck) Kangaroo is a Red (thanks Joy) and appears to be old and grizzled which also gives it the appearance of having its own personal sharpening halo 😊. One of its listening devices is pointed in my direction whilst the other is monitoring noises off to its left (viewer's right)

Kangaroos are the largest marsupial and can grow to 2-metres (6’7”) in height and weigh up to 90 kg (200 lbs) and whilst their average life span is not known it is believed to be 15 to 20 years although they can live longer in captivity.

They are able to reach speeds of 60 kph (37 mph) and clear more than 8 metres (26 feet) with a single hop using their powerful hind legs and their muscular tail which is used for balance when hopping and also acts as a third leg.

Their tail is also used for defense whereby they balance on their tail, lean back and lift both hind legs off the ground and kick with their powerful back legs in an endeavor to disembowel an opponent. They have very sharp claws on both their forelimbs and hind legs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRT7lf8byw

In 1936 a New South Wales hunter was killed by a kangaroo when he tried to rescue his two dogs from a heated battle.

Australia's Coat of Arms is held up by native Australian animals the kangaroo and the emu, which were chosen to symbolise a nation moving forward, based on the fact that neither animal can move backwards easily.

Taken in our garden at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex this Spring.

Crocus (plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms. Many are cultivated for their flowers appearing in autumn, winter, or spring. Crocuses are native to woodland, scrub, and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on the islands of the Aegean, and across Central Asia to western China.

The name of the genus is derived from the Greek κρόκος (krokos). This, in turn, is probably a loan word from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew כרכום karkōm, Aramaic ܟܟܘܪܟܟܡܡܐ kurkama, and Arabic كركم kurkum, which mean "saffron" ( Crocus sativus), "saffron yellow" or turmeric (see Curcuma). The English name is a learned 16th-century adoption from the Latin, but Old English already had croh "saffron". The Classical Sanskrit कुङ्कुमं kunkumam "saffron" (Sushruta Samhita) is presumably also from the Semitic word.

Cultivation and harvesting of Crocus sativus for saffron was first documented in the Mediterranean, notably on the island of Crete. Frescos showing them are found at the Knossos site on Crete, as well as from the comparably aged Akrotiri site on Santorini.

The first crocus seen in the Netherlands, where crocus species are not native, were from corms brought back in the 1560s from Constantinople by the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. A few corms were forwarded to Carolus Clusius at the botanical garden in Leiden. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting (illustration, below), new garden varieties had been developed, such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, similar to varieties still on the market. Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing to paint his composed piece spanning the whole of spring, exaggerated the crocus so that it passes for a tulip, but its narrow, grass-like leaves give it away.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus

It may seem pointless to go all the way to the Highlands and then photograph small details you might find anywhere. But I've always enjoyed geometry and abstraction. Many of my photographs include these elements. But sometimes they are the photograph, as here. And although this kind of image appears simple, I find they require painstaking attention to detail. With so little in the frame, everything must be arranged so that nothing superfluous intrudes or distracts. Above all, and despite the high degree of abstraction, there must be a sense of completeness within the frame. Otherwise, the composition feels random and will not satisfy.

Leica Q2, Summilux 1.7/28 ASPH. Original photograph copyright © Simon Miles. Not to be used without permission. Thanks for looking.

This small, curious tree on the left appeared to me as if it was trying to see if the sun had already come out.

November 2020 | Wiernsheim

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